Exelon Utilities Ready for Summer Heat and Storms
June 14 2016 - 11:00AM
Business Wire
Significant company investments in smart grid
and storm-hardening will help prevent outages for more than 22
million people
With forecasts calling for a higher number of severe storms this
summer, Exelon’s six utilities have taken action to prepare,
implementing a comprehensive and coordinated plan to be ready for
severe storms and high temperatures. All of the Exelon utilities
have invested substantially in smart grid and storm-hardening
programs to help prevent power outages and restore service faster
when they do occur, in addition to sharing best practices and
resources across the company.
“Our customers depend on us to provide power safely and
reliably, and we are always working to improve the service we
provide through our utilities,” said Denis O’Brien, senior
executive vice president, Exelon, and CEO, Exelon Utilities. “Now,
with the completion of the Pepco Holdings merger, we have a larger,
more diverse team with more knowledge, best practices and resources
to share. We will leverage our combined strengths to further
improve storm response for our customers.”
Exelon’s six utilities -- Atlantic City Electric, BGE, ComEd,
Delmarva Power, PECO and Pepco -- deliver electricity and natural
gas to approximately 22 million people in seven states, including
the major metro centers of Baltimore, Chicago, Philadelphia and
Washington D.C. Exelon’s utilities have invested substantially in
recent years to upgrade substations, wires and poles, as well as
deploy 7.4 million smart meters and other advanced technologies
across their service areas. Over the next five years, Exelon will
invest an additional $25 billion at its six utilities to continue
to strengthen the power grid and improve service to customers.
Also included in Exelon’s investments are innovative new
technologies that provide benefits for customers. Digital sensors,
smart switches and software installed at each utility can
automatically detect power outages and reroute power to restore
service to customers faster. The technology also helps Exelon’s
utilities better pinpoint the source of power outages so they can
fix problems faster and more efficiently. In addition, mobile apps,
social media and other technologies provide customers with
up-to-date information about the location and cause of outages, and
the expected restoration time.
In addition to storm hardening, the six Exelon utilities also
prepare for summer by conducting emergency response drills to test
processes and systems. Many such drills are closely coordinated
with local police, fire and other emergency management
officials.
Exelon utilities are among the nation’s best for reliability
performance. Now, with the completion of the Pepco Holdings merger,
Exelon utilities facing severe weather can draw on resources from
sister utilities in Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C.
The six Exelon utilities together comprise the nation’s largest
utility company by customer count.
Exelon Corporation (NYSE: EXC), now including the Pepco Holdings
utilities, is the nation’s leading competitive energy provider,
with 2015 revenues of approximately $34.5 billion. Headquartered in
Chicago, Exelon does business in 48 states, the District of
Columbia and Canada. Exelon is one of the largest competitive U.S.
power generators, with more than 32,700 megawatts of owned capacity
comprising one of the nation’s cleanest and lowest-cost power
generation fleets. The company’s Constellation business unit
provides energy products and services to approximately 2 million
residential, public sector and business customers, including more
than two-thirds of the Fortune 100. Exelon’s six utilities deliver
electricity and natural gas to approximately 10 million customers
in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Illinois, Maryland, New
Jersey and Pennsylvania through its Atlantic City Electric, BGE,
ComEd, Delmarva Power, PECO and Pepco subsidiaries. Follow Exelon
on Twitter @Exelon.
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